Improvement in suley-plouges



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Wheel-Plow. Y No. 62,615. PatentedMar, 5, 1867.

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Letters Patent No. 62,615, dated 1li/[arch 5,1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN SULKY-PLGUGHS.

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Be it known that I, O. PDILS, of Falmouth, in the county of Pendleton, and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and improved Sulky-Eilough; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact'description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specication, in which- Figure 1 is a side View of my invention,

Figure 2, a plan or top View of the same.

Figure 3, a rear View of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

This invention relates to a new and improved riding attachment for ploughs, whereby the driver is provided with a seat on the device, and has full control' over the plough. The invention consists in a-pecnlia construction and arrangement of parts, asA hereinafter fullyshow'n and described, whereby both the plough and the carriage or sulky part of the device'are allowed to conform perfectly to the inequalities of surface over which they may pass, .and an implement of light or easy draught obtained.

A represents a plough-beam, having a standard, B, attached to its rear end, to which a plough is secured,

'of any proper or desired form, the plough not being shown in the drawings. (l represents a metal bar, which is slotted longitudinally, as shown at a; said slot extending nearly the whole length of the bar C. This bar is secured transversely to the beam A, just in front of the standard B, .by means of a clamp, composed ofa bar, b, and two screws, c c, the bar Z7 being at the under side of thc beam, and the screw c passing through it and through the slot a of bar C, and having nuts CZ on their 4upper ends. The bar C .is curved down to a vertical position at its left-hund side, and the axis e of the land-wheel D is secured in the slot ct' by a screw-nut, f, as shown in figs. 2 and 3. E represents the draught-pole, to the roar end of which a bar, F, is attached by a screwbolt, g, the latter passing through an oblong slot in F, and also through the lower end of a spring, G, which supports the drivel-s seat H. The front spring, upon which the seat rests, is secured by a bolt, which boltelso secures the-rest and support for the feet. One end of the bar F is secured by linked bolts I I to the bar C, as shown more particularly in g. 3; and the opposite end of said bar has a metal bar, J, attached to it, which has .a longitudinahslot, c', made in it, in which the axis.;I of the furrowLwheel K is secured by a nut, 7c. L represents a gauge-wheel, the axis Z of which is secured in vthe lower cud of an upright bar, M, whiclrhas a vertical slot, m, made in it. In the upper part of the slot m an' eye-bolt, N, is secured by a screw-nut, n, and the'draught pole passes ,through the eye o of the sadjbolt. O represents a brac-ered, the rear end of which is constructed in link form, as shown at p, and is secured to the bur C by the lower linlebolt I. The front end of this brace` rod is `attached to the bar M by a screw-bolt, g, which passes through the slot m. Prepresents a bracerod,having a link, r, at each end; said links being` attached, the front one by a screw-bolt, s, to a plate, t, and the rear one to the axis 7' of the furrow-wheel K. The screw-bolts g s pass through a plate, t, at one side of the bcam.A, the plate M being at the opposite side. By this means the front end of the plough-beam is supported.

By this arrangement it will b c Aseen that both the forward and. land-wheels are allowed to riseaud fall independently of each other, and conform to th'eV inequalities of surface over which they may pass, and that the plough also may move and adjustitself to the surface of/the ground, as it has a cer-tain degree of play or movement which is suiiicientto admit of that result, and the machine may hereadily guided, and the draughtpoleadjusted at its rear, so as to give more or less land to the plough, as may he required.`

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The arrangement of the draught-pole and hars F C, with the land and furrow-wheels D K, respectively attached, the brace-rods O P, and plough-beam A, for the purpose of forming a new and improved sulky-plough,

as set forth.

0. P. DELS.

Witnesses:

C. H. LEE, v G. C. Lrenrroor. 

